The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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It is a native of Italy, and flowers and bears its 
fruit tliere fomewhat earlier than om firawberry. 
Zanoni calls this Fragaria arberea fiore herbaceo- 
Morifon, Fragaria major vcfcaflore herbaceo. 
The fruit of the garden ftrawberry is cooling ; 
and when eaten in any quantity, wine and fugar 
are proper additions. 
The leaves are cooling and diuretick. An in- 
fufion of them is good in ftranguries ; and, when 
made ftronger, in the jaundice. Powdered, they 
are ufeful in dyfenteries i and a decoftion of thein 
fweetencd with honey, is an excellent gargle for 
fore throats. They have the credit alfo, of being 
a cofmetick ; but for that there is no great 
authority. 
G E N U S IL 
C I N QJJ E F O I L. 
P E N r A P H 7" L L V M. 
CInquefoil has five leaves on every footflalk, and five petals in each flower. The feeds fiand 
in a fmall button i and the cup is divided into ten unequal fegments. 
LinnsELis places this among his icofiindria polygima i the threads being about twenty in each flower, 
and growing to the infide of the cup or the petals ; and the fl-yles, from the rudiments of the feeds, 
numerous. 
DIVISION 1. BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. Common CinquefoiL 
Pentaphyllum vidgare. 
The root is long, thick, and brown. 
The leaves fland five on each footftalk, and arc 
oblong, hairy, and of a dufky green, ferratcd at 
the edges, and rounded or blunt at the ends : the 
footftalks are (lender, and three inches long. 
The niainftalks of the plant are long, very 
weak, and creeping. From the bottoms of the 
leaves rife flender pedicles, each fuftaining a 
fmgle flower. This is large, of a bright yellow, 
compofed of roundifli leaves, heart-fafliioned at 
the ends, with a great clufler of Hiort threads 
in the centre, and it fl'ands in a cup formed of 
one leaf and divided into ten parts at the edge. 
When the flower is fallen the feeds ripen in 
a little clufler, which is defended by five fegments 
of the cup clofmg about it; the lame fi,ve clofe 
about the flower whik in the bud. 
The long creeping ftalks take root at the joints, 
whence leaves aifo arife, and the plant thus pro- 
pagates icfelf abundantly. 
.It is frequent by way fides, and flowers in June- 
The root is aflringent: its outer rind is the 
mofl: valuable part, and it is befl: given in pow- 
der, twelve grains for a dofe. It thus fl:ops purg- 
ings, and is good in haemorrhages of all kinds, 
particularly the overflowings of the menfes, and 
fpitting of blood. 
In a larger dofe it will often cure intermittent 
fevers, 
A fl:rong decoillon of it is alfo good for fore 
mouths. 
J. Bauhine calls this Fentaphylliim ■vulgarerepem. 
C. Bauhine, ^iinqiiefoliim majiis repens. 
2. Silver-leaved Cinqnefoil. 
Ventaphyllum ereSiim foliis fiibtus argentds. 
The root is large, thick, and woody, brown 
on tlie outfide, and white within : it divides into 
many heads, and has feveral fibres. 
The ftallis are nunnerous, firm, upright, hairy, 
and fix inches high. 
The leaves fliand alternately : they have longifli 
Footftalks, at the bafe oF which there is a little 
appendage furrounding the ftalk: they are deeply 
divided at the edges into five large, but irregular 
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parts, and are of a duflty green above, and white 
underneath. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a bright yellow; 
They are compofed each of five petals, with a 
large tuft of threads in the centre. 
The feed is ripened in fmall clufters. Five of 
the ten fegments of the cup in this, as the others, 
furround firft the bud of the flower, and after- 
wards the clufler of feeds. 
It is common in dry barren places, and flowers 
in June. 
Its virtues have not been try'd, they are pro- 
bably the fame with tliofe of the other, but in a 
lefs degree. 
J. Bauhine calls this Pentaphyllum ere^.um foliis 
profunde feSIis fuhius argenteis fiore luteo. C. Bau- 
hine, ^.inauefoliiim folio argenteo, 
■3,. Little rough Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphyllum parviim hirfutrum. 
The root is long, thick, and black. 
The leaves that rife from it are fmall, five on 
each footflalk, and hairy : they are of a dufky 
green, and deeply ferrated : the footflalks that 
bear them are about two inches long. 
The main italks rife among thefe. They are 
flender, hairy, and of a redifh colour, and lie 
fcattered on the ground. 
The flowers fl:and at the tops of the branches, 
and are large, and of a beautiful yellow. 
Jt grows in drypafl:ures, but is not frequent: 
I have feen it near Loughborough. It flowers in 
June. 
J. Bauhine calls this Penlaphyllum pnn'um hi;-' 
fiilum. C. Bauhine, ^liN^uefolimi minus repens 
aureum. 
4, Three-fingered Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphylhim minus repens foliis tripartitis. 
The root is fmall and long ; it is brown on the 
outfide, and has many fibres. 
The leaves ifand on footflalks, which are flen- 
der, weak, and redilh. They have three principal 
divifions, and twofmallcr j appearing to be com- 
pofed of five leaves thus irregular in their fize. 
The Italks run upon the ground and root a: 
the joints,^ as in the common cinquefoil. 
